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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>break</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bread-crumbs.html" title="bread crumbs"/><link rel="next" href="break-even-point.html" title="break-even point"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">break</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bread-crumbs.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="break-even-point.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="break"/><dt xmlns="" id="break"><b>break</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To cause to be
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<a href="broken.html"><i class="glossterm">broken</i></a> (in any sense). “<span class="quote">Your latest patch to
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the editor broke the paragraph commands.</span>”</p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> (of a program) To stop
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temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a
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<span class="firstterm">breakpoint</span>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [techspeak] <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To send an
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RS-232 break (two character widths of line high) over a serial comm line.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 4. [Unix] <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To strike whatever
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key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process.
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Normally, break (sense 3), delete or <a href="../C/control-C.html"><i class="glossterm">control-C</i></a> does
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this. </p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="firstterm">break break</span> may be said to
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interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage
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comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline
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telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze of
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the early 1980s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bread-crumbs.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="break-even-point.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bread crumbs </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> break-even point</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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